[meteorite-list] Corrected radar link; warning about infrasound solution

Matson, Robert D. ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com
Tue Apr 24 13:37:01 EDT 2012


Hi Richard,

There's a spelling error in your link -- should be:

<http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full.php>

That said, the fall location was not near Mariposa, and since the
infrasound
coordinates were based on only two ground sites, I wouldn't place too
much
confidence in the solution. A minimum of three sites is required for
triangulation -- more than three if the ground sites detected a bow
shock
rather than a terminal burst (which seems very likely in this case).

--Rob

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Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: Looking for help in locating
the4/22sightingnear Turlock, CA

Click the link http://radar.wearther.gov/Conus/full.php for a map NASA
pegged for the break-up of the bolide calculated to be rather large and
slow-moving....no direction pin-pointed.  It looks to be around Dogtown,
north of Mariposa.

What does everything think??

-Richard Montgomery




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